About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Oshiver is a licensed psychotherapist with a long career helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, depression, addictions, and ADHD. She holds LMFT and LCSW credentials and practices in New Jersey. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, with an emphasis on listening and building a trusting therapeutic relationship.
She uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person's needs and goals front and center. Jacqueline also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are woven into sessions when they fit the client's goals. Across 40 years of work she has supported people facing trauma, loss, career strain, and intimacy or communication problems. Her background includes university teaching and ongoing post-graduate learning, which she uses to inform practical strategies in sessions.
Jacqueline combines life experience with clinical knowledge to help people cope with setbacks and transitions. Sessions are collaborative. She helps people identify patterns that cause distress and then tries out manageable changes together.
Homework and simple skill practice may be suggested between sessions to build forward progress. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, skill-building, and emotional support. Jacqueline aims to help people feel steadier day to day and to restore a sense of well-being as they move forward.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist, emphasizing listening, acceptance, and jointly set goals. It helps people feel heard and guides decisions about what to work on together.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and to build new coping skills for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and stress.
Emotionally-focused ideas are used to notice and rework patterns in close relationships and communication. When relationship patterns are part of the concern, this approach helps identify repeated cycles and supports new ways of connecting.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jacqueline will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they will try approaches and adjust based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth alternative for focused conversation. Live chat or text messaging can suit quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or times when writing feels easier. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Maine, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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